David Glynn

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Well I would call them more of an organization than a union. we are talking more along the lines of a company wide union, for all departments have been affected. For the reasons that Bobdea posted, it would be good to get as many departments on board. Strength in numbers. To lose the end of season bonus is a huge deal to many employees. Its not like anyone is getting rich at these jobs. Did I mention that The price of lessons have gone up? The company pockets around $350 off a full day private request lesson with the highest paid instructor giving the lesson and more if the level of the instructor is lower. The company makes BIG bucks off of ski school. The snow was great today and it was so beautiful. Good for the soul.

The snowboard races have been moved to the nastar because of poor rider turnout. Milk run was, is .sick. We use to have GS there also and started from the top down through the milk farm and around the corner and down the next little pitch stopping in the finish area by the timing shed. Pretty good length. They have collegiate ski races there now. People love the venue. We will have our first usasa races here on Jan.6th I believe. It's a Sunday and I think the gs and slalom will be the same day. The turn out last year was only less than 20 kids only one or two race boards. If you are trying to get to nationals it's an easier way in. The second race is one or two weeks later. I could confirm the dates if anyone was interested. New carver lets try to hook up this year 970-728-3433

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Bobdea, good reply it's going to get complicated. Old volvos rule it is Dave Riely. He's not making too many friends down here. Oh I forgot to mention I'm talking about Telluride. Gotta go, get to work.

Does anyone have any knowledge of unionizing a ski or snowboard school or for that matter all of a ski area's employees? We have a new c.e.o. here in Telluride. One of his first moves was to eliminate the end of the season bonuses for everyone; no discussion, take it or leave it. These were considered as pay to many and much needed to get through off season. They seem to average a 3% to 7% pay cut as lift tickets have gone up as has most everything else. Needless to say everyone affected by this is pissed! Especially the overseas instructors who came all the way here only to find a diminished paycheck.Lots of ideas floating around but no real direction as of yet. We had our first meeting on the bonus cut two days ago.

Silver Bullet Nice pic! Oh yeah, thats what I'm talking about! Where is the pic from? I think you would like it here in T-ride on a good day.

As you get on steeper terrain every time that board hits the fall line you are going to accelerate at a faster rate and the turns will get longer but being on a 164 you should be able to get it around without running out of room. You are right about needing higher edge angles etc. What I find to be very helpfull on the steeps is trying to bring the turn up hill a little and having some very aggressive but smooth transitions allowing the board to get out away from you as far as possible with a lot of extension and letting it carve back under you as it has little pressure on it and then loading it up as it finds the fall line and looking well into the turn as the board comes under and then up the hill slightly. And then repeat. It's cool how committed you have to be as the board will just come under you just before your body hits the snow holding you up but laid way out. Another thing that can be of help to me is to squeeze my knees together to decamber the board more and tighten up the turn. But that comment may start a controversy. Steeps are way fun!! Telluride has some incredible steeps but unfortunately the grooming can be pretty poor.But when they get it right.... oh my God.

It's amazing to me that your snowboard school is still so stuck in a rut. To me as long as the instructor has a firm grasp of soft boot riding it should not matter if they are in soft or hard boots. Angles should be a matter of choice, as a matter of fact that should be lesson # 1!!! If their opinion that an instructor should match the students set up why not require that instructors go out in beginner gear when teaching beginners? If anything beginners should follow the lead of their instructors not the other way around. Your snowboard school sure knows how to take the fun out of teaching. Stick to your guns.

Nice Joel! We haven't had much to carve on Here in T-ride yet but now that the King of the Mountain event is over maybe that will change.

I think D-SUB is reffering to a simple piece of equipment called a Roman chair. There is no seat to it, just padded armrests and handles at the ends and it is elevated so when in it your feet are off the ground. It is a very simple but great exercise especially when weights are added to the feet. You just hang suspended from your fore arms and draw your legs up to simulate a sitting position or higher. It is great for developing that retraction move necessary for that quick cross under move in racing or aggressive riding and skiing. In my opinion a must do exercise.

Awesome piece of gear. I'm glad it's not a gs or i'd be juggling money I don't have

Many wrecks are scary as hell to watch but only become funny when everyone escapes unhurt. My friend Scottie Kennett and I were standing at the bottom of the Alley and Zulu Queen in Telluride when we hear all this hooting and hollering mixed with the sound of snapping branches.We look up Apex and see this guy in a rodeo stance skiing toward us at mach 10 with branches hanging from him as he came out of the last trees. He got more and more compressed as he crossed the moguls in the gutter and went uphill towards Zulu hootin' all the way. When he couldn't compress any further he blew out of both skies and launched head first into the firm backside of a bump. As he lay there motionless for a moment, like a dead ostrich,with his head stuck into the mogul up to his neck Scottie and I thought he was DEAD. But then he reaches up with his hands puts them on the mogul next to his head, pulls his knees up under him and proceeds to twist and pull his head out of the mogul with such force that he then falls over backward and starts laughing his ass off. (In hind sight I think this guy was laughing inside the mogul, we just couldn't hear him) We went from the terror of thinking we were watching someone die to laughing are asses off with him. No **** it was like watching a cartoon.

RTY carve Do you have a #?

Does anyone know how the coiler stiffness index or rating works? I'm interested in a coiler for sale here its a 173 pure race at a stiffness of 5.8. I ride a 181 pure race at 7.1 and love it. I weigh 165 and ride aggressively. How will the two compare. Will I be disappointed in the 5.8.? Answers and or suggestions asap please. Thanks

Yeah Anton knows what's good! Indian

The flexon has always been a great boot, and not just for skiing, they have been a favorite of mine for carving too. A great choice for those of us that like to carve and ski in the same day without having to change footware. I wish the resurrectors of this boot good luck. Indian

Interesting situation. It seems like you need to decide whats more important the principle or the job. If it is the principle then letters to the editors in the local papers can work well. Even if things don't go your way it does bring it into the public eye and promote your point of view. And after the letter(s) if you feel the need; show up in hard boots ( the busier the day the better) If you are taken to task over it ............ well it's another opportunity for yet another letter. If you lose your job then I would say that it may open the door for totally above ground underground lessons in hardboots. Maybe with all the press you will have some clients. Good luck Indian

Good advice so far! I would add that : You need to get your student to relax, So find out how to get them relaxed so that their body( tense body at this point ) can get out of the way. Just as many people learn differently they may also need different paths to relaxation. When your student relaxes it opens the door to learning. Set them up with a stance and angles that are comfortable to them. As long as they don't have toe are heel drag most anything will work for now as long as it is comfortable , they can dial things in as they go. Start easy and stand tall and RELAXED and just have them rock from edge to edge while going down an easy trail (green) so they can feel the edge and a carve. Also show them that the board will SKID! Very good for stopping and allowing them to relax but then Focus on the edge. Thats a good beginning.And it just goes on and on from there........... books worth. But the next thing I work on with them is some up and down movement trying to set the stage for dynamic movements through the turns, in other words bringing the knees and hips into play. And again .......on and on it goes. Once they get some good movement going and they are ready for a deeper carve I'll have them work on getting the board as far away from them as they can. A fun drill at this point is to have them carve to a stop by OVER committing to a turn and have them try to lay it out and finish the turn laying on the ground. Do it both toe and heelside. Once they feel the deep carve like this it is pretty easy to get them to start linking deep turns together. And on and on it goes. As so many others have said, people learn differently. I have had some people pick things up fast and others a little slowly. Some learn by leaps and bounds others need all the little gaps filled in. Some need to see it, Some need to hear it, and some need to feel it but they all need to understand it on there terms. Hope you find plenty of students. Keep 'em safe and teach them to look over their shoulder. Indian

Heal up soon!!!!! Had one of those once but it was caused by an impact with a car. Healed just fine.

Bummpyride. Can't get the smiles to work but with the risk of sounding offensive I've got to say: You can take all your lawyer crap and put it where all the other lawyer crap should go right next to the devil's advocate crap and.................. But least you think I'm ragging on you on a personal level I want to assure you that I'm not. I want to thank you, for this is a really good thread and thanks again for getting it out there. My feelings are that we all should ride and ski with caution and respect for everyone that is up there sharing such a wonderfull thing as the snow/gravity experience and not pin everything on the "CODE". Ride for survival both yours and their's. But your comments from a hypothetical lawyers point of view do nothing but confuse the real plain and simple rules in the skiers code. Really if you can't understand them or know others that don't please talk to a patrol person and have them explain them till you are clear on them. To ride thinking you are the downhill rider and everyone else has to watchout for you on the run that you have claimed as your own is just plain stupid and any rider that thinks that way is irresponsible but someone who doesn't know or doesn't understand or ignores the code is a true menace and shouldn't be on the hill. Again if you hit someone from behind it is your fault whether they cut you off by traversing or by a deep heelside carve. The uphill rider has the responsibility to avoid those below them period. So, as the uphill rider, slow down and give others room. Come to a stop if you have to, what's so wrong with that? Set a good example. Maybe if people understood the code they would understand how to ride.

There is now a mag called, " Frequency The Snowboard Journal' which is pretty much a "real" snowboard mag and just not an advertisement format; nice quality paper, great photos, etc but definitly geared to soft booters. It has soul. Don't know if they would be interested in carving. But if the article was well written with artistic photos it wouldn't suprize me if they'd go for it.

I teach skiing and coach snowboard racing. In skiing I try to emphasize a light touch and a softening of the downhill leg which leads to earlier and better absorption especially in the bumps. Men have to beat themselves up quit a bit before they surrender to the notion of a soft touch that less is more. The women get this much sooner than the men. Men try to muscle every thing on average. When I coach snowboard racing I emphasize commitment to the turn , forward drive through the turn, in other words aggression. Men pick up on this much sooner.

I've only been there a few times for races several years back. The nastar for slalom was a little short and the g.s. was quite fun. We seemed to have a lot of fun there out of the courses as well. You would do better if you could get some more recent info because so much depends on the grooming and it's been too long since I was there. The typical run there is flat to head wall to flat to headwall etc. etc. I'm from Telluride and the carving can be great here and we are just a little further for you than Durango mountain ( purgatory ). Let me know if you are headed this way.